Why is pop music 'getting worse'?

[Orion 121]

The answer is : $$$$

[Phlop 4,773]

Pop music isn’t even a thing.

Go on Spotify or Apple Music and see that the top hits are all male hip hop artists.

 

[AndyGa 322]

17 hours ago, Drin Lon said:

Agree but we were talking about talented people and not prefferences 

Talent scale is different for everyone  

For me they get breathy pretty quick while singing

[Laceface 2,964]

Same old beats, same meaningless generic lyrics that the radio stations and young kids will eat up straight away. Beginning to sound like my parents but music really was better 2005-2011/12, maybe it's because some of us became fans around the start of The Fame but even before.. we had artists like Fall Out Boy, BEP, PCD, One Republic, Nelly Furtado, Mariah.. Christina Milian, Ashanti, Amerie, 50 Cent, early Kanye lots of R&B influences 

[Poisoned 31]

I think pop music is fine just the way it is.  Plus theres so many indie artists out there that do experimental unique music.  Theres music for all tastes and types on spotify.  I find new artists to enjoy almost daily.

[StrawberryBlond 14,862]

I don't agree with some of the comparison examples. Ccome on, everyone should know about Gaga's extensive talent by now and there are a lot worse out there than he mentioned (and why did he use that old, unflattering picture of her?) Apparently, making pop music exempts you from being praised even if you write all your own material, play your own instruments and sing like an angel. Too many music critics don't fight the real enemy these days and can be very snobby. And you can usually tell when they've listened to very little of an artist's discography. As a music critic, research should be the most important thing.

However, everything else he says is pretty much spot on. The mechanics of what make a good song is very credible and calling out the repetition and overuse of the same producers is absolutely necessary. I definitely agree with what he said regarding the brainwashing tricks that labels do in order for songs to stand a higher chance at becoming a hit. I've commonly grown to like songs that I didn't like at first either merely because I've heard them over and over. And I've lost count of the amount of songs that have barely scraped top 40 and yet, in their single campaign, they were always getting played on the radio, utilised in ads, promoted, etc. It's clear that the label wants their investment to come through and will stop at nothing to get it, even if the public isn't having it. So, you gotta love it when the public outright rejects one of these aggressive marketing campaigns.

But at the end of the day, there has been good and bad music in every decade, in every genre. Pop is definitely not the only offender or even the worst offender.